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Developer Center HOWTO - Update your SAP HANA, developer edition on AWSStep 3 - Mount the device

OK, here's some Linux stuff - you now need to "mount" the device associated with your volume into the file system of your HANA instance. This will allow you to switch to a directory in the file system and see the content of the volume. So mount the device:

Start your instance if it's not already started
Use an SSH client (e.g. putty) to logon to the OS of your AWS instance as user root. [Note: if you don't remember how to logon to the OS, check http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/getting-started-deploy-app-connect.html]
Create a new directory (e.g. /sap/update, but choose whatever you want) by executing
mkdir /sap/update
Mount the device that is associated with the volume you created (the value for Device that you remember from Step 2, it will look somewhat like /dev/sdf) to the directory you just created by executing
mount /dev/sdf /sap/update
[Note: use your values for device and directory when executing the mount device directory command]
Check the content of your update directory (you should see a file update.shalong with some sub-directories) by executing
ls /sap/update
[Note: use your value for directory when executing the ls directory command]

=> You have everything in place to start the update process

Step 5 - Get the Client Software

HANA Client and HANA Studio for Linux and Windows, as well as the SAPUI5 plugin for HANA Studio are available in directory /sap/update/media on your HANA Server machine as long as the update volume is mounted. Use a scp (e.g. WinSCP is great for Windows users) or sftp client to download the zip files.

We will also make the tools available for download in the Developer Center very soon.

Step 6 - Clean up

Done? Not quite. You have created an EBS volume that you don't need any more, and AWS will charge you for that volume. Although it's not going to be a lot of money, it seems like a good idea to delete the volume. To delete the volume:

In your SSH session, navigate out of the update directory and back into the root users home directory by executing
cd ~
Unmount the device by executing
umount /sap/update
This was the last command you need to execute in your SSH session, so you can end the session by executing
exit

Regards,

Shalin Shah